Whether we are considering the security of computing infrastructure, the
application layer, or system management, open source software makes
outstanding sense.

A properly constructed computing infrastructure is verifiably
secure. That is to say, both its methods of construction and the
elements used in its construction must be open to inspection throughout
its life cycle.
Conversely, any infrastructure component or management tool which
is not verifiably secure puts the entire computing environment at risk.
Only open source software permits complete verification at all times.
As security people are fond of saying, security is not a product but a
process. Open source enables the most critical element of that
process.

There are numerous other benefits for which open source software is
widely respected. From a business perspective, chief among these is
surely the protection of business processes, and with it the guarantee
of continued integrity, confidentiality, and accessibility to corporate
data. Others accrue from the freedoms conferred by open source.
Examples are freedom from licensing constraint, freedom of access to
competing goods and services, and freedom to innovate and to benefit
from the innovation of others. Resource benefits are also typically
seen in such areas as capital expense, license administration,
liaibility, and operations.

Organizations in both the
public
and
private
sectors are becoming increasingly sensitive to the benefits of the open
source model, as can be seen by the partial list which appears below.

2002-03-27
The Executive, Legislative and Judicial Powers, decentralized
organizations and companies where the National State is a major
stockholder, will use only free programs (software) for their systems
and IT equipment.

2005-10-10
A protracted NSW government project to give its agencies cheaper and
quicker access to Linux and open source software is reaching fruition
with several vendors preparing to sign contracts as pre-approved
suppliers.

2005-09-29
The NSW Office of State Revenue (OSR) is taking a tough stance against
Microsoft's decision to make an enterprise edition of Windows Vista only
available to companies that have signed on to its Software Assurance
program.
[...]
[T]he agency had already successfully bedded down open source on its
back-end, running its Oracle 9i and 10g core databases and assorted
other transactional applications over Citrix on Dell-based clusters and
had guarantees of open source support from key enterprise applications
vendors.

2005-04-04
The NSW government said it had established Australia's the first
whole-of-government panel to supply open source software and services to
its departments and agencies.

2004-08-18
The state government of New South Wales, in Australia, will migrate
1,500 of its users in the Roads and Traffic Authority from Microsoft
Outlook to Sun's StarOffice productivity suite and Messaging products.

2003-12-10
The Australian Capital Territory is set to become the first jurisdiction
in the country to adopt a bill which says that public bodies should, as
far as practicable, consider the use of open source software when
procuring computer software.

2003-11-03
While critics in the United States grow more concerned each day about
the insecurity of electronic voting machines, Australians designed a
system two years ago that addressed and eased most of those concerns:
They chose to make the software running their system completely open to
public scrutiny.
Called eVACS, or Electronic Voting and Counting System, the system was
created by a company called Software Improvements to run on Linux, an
open-source operating system available on the Internet.
[The Australian Capital Territory Electoral Commission] posted drafts as
well as the finished software code on the Internet for the public to
review. The system cost $125,000 to develop and implement.

2003-02-17
The Australian Government is a "leader" in guiding public sector Linux
implementations, the head of IBM's global public sector Linux program says.
Ms Fisher said the federal Government's endorsement of the open source
operating system as an option for government agencies and its approach to
sharing information on Linux, and tomorrow's forum were examples of its
strategic approach to government IT infrastructure.

2005-03-29
Since taking office two years ago, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
has turned Brazil into a tropical outpost of the free-software movement.
Looking to save millions of dollars in royalties and licensing fees, da
Silva has instructed government ministries and state-run companies to
gradually switch from costly operating systems made by Microsoft and
others to free operating systems, like Linux. On da Silva's watch,
Brazil has also become the first country to require any company or
research institute that receives government financing to develop
software to license it as open source, meaning the underlying software
code must be free to all.

2005-01-31
The government of Brazil says it will switch 300,000 government computers
from Microsoft's Windows operating system to open source software like Linux.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates wants to meet with Brazil's president to
discuss the change.
Brazil is dropping all proprietary software.

2004-06-18
Brazil is one of the countries whose government has come out firmly in
favor of free software. The initiative includes plans to export around 2
billion USD worth of software per year; to replace Microsoft Windows
with Linux in 300,000 federal government computers; to transfer 1
billion USD in resources from the Telecommunications Fund (Fust) to the
free software-based Digital Communications System (SCD); and to
integrate the country's 200,000 public schools via open-source
technology.

2003-10-10
IBM is teaming up with the government of Brazil to develop the country's
expertise in open-source software such as Linux, the technology giant
announced Friday.

2003-10-10
Following moves by the U.K. and Russia, the government of Brazil
announced Friday that it has signed a letter of intent with IBM pledging
to develop initiatives that will promote the use of Linux in the Latin
American country.

2003-05-13
The Government of Canada has embarked on a preliminary exploration of
the benefits of open source solutions by commissioning a study of "Open
Source Business Opportunities for Canada's ICT Sector". Among the issues
their study will explore are the implications for the Government of
Canada as a user, developer and buyer of software. The study is
scheduled for completion in the summer of 2003.

2003-10-17
A few years ago, Environment Canada needed to upgrade its aging fleet of
three to four hundred HP-UX workstations used for weather prediction,
forecasting, and analysis.
[...]
The [New Linux systems] worked faster than the old Unix systems and
allowed Environment Canada to replace its old proprietary hardware and
software at a savings of $14,000 plus licensing fees per seat, or over
$4 million across the whole department.

2004-02-10
The county chose a new system using Red Hat Linux, IBM DB2, and a
financial package called ACCPAC Insight.
[...]
"Because of the person-hours saved over the first three-and-a-half
months, we figured that the system paid for itself during that time,"
said Joe Santoro, president of Synergy Plus Solutions of Windsor,
Ontario, an ACCPAC solution provider that assisted the County of Essex
with the deployment. "That's not a bad ROI."

2004-04-08
For a case study on why Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems sued one
another for peace last week, look no further than the City of Calgary.
Over the past year, this customer moved from proprietary Unix, running
on aging proprietary hardware from Sun and Hewlett-Packard, to Linux on
Intel-based servers.

2009-05-22
Vancouver city council has endorsed the principles of making its data open
and accessible to everyone where possible, adopting open standards for that
data and considering open source software when replacing existing
applications.

2003-11-17
The China Standard Software Co., a consortium of government-funded
companies, selected Sun as its preferred technology partner to deploy
Linux-based desktops. The deal is part of China's deliberate policy to
diversify away from Microsoft. Other governments in Europe and Asia have
embraced a similar strategy, as has the state of Massachusetts. China
has pledged to deploy 200 million copies of open standards-based desktop
software.

2003-05-14
In Asia-Pacific, governments in China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and
Australia are encouraging government departments and businesses to
replace Microsoft products with a combination of Linux, other
open-source products, and software from local vendors.

2007-02-16
Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least
one capitalist empire - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) - by joining with
socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software.

2003-10-23
Open source software represents a serious alternative to proprietary
products, and should be used as a tool to open up software markets to
more competition, according to a report carried out under the auspices
of the Danish government.
"A strategy for e-government should not be based on a closed,
proprietary standard in a key technology," the report said.

2003-10-22
Switching from proprietary software to open source software in Danish
public administration has an economic scope of several billion DKK every
year.

2008-02-14
An ambitious initiative that aims to bring open source software to a new
level in Europe hopes to make competition with US companies more
interesting. QualiPSo is a four-year project partly funded by the EU.

2002-07-11
The European Union wants to "join up" IT systems between national
governments using open source technology, according to a "working paper"
issued at the beginning of July 2003.

2002-06-21
By end 2003, the Commission will issue an agreed interoperability
framework to support the delivery of pan-European e-government services
to citizens and enterprises. It will address information content and
recommend technical policies and specifications for joining up public
administration information systems across the EU. It will be based on
open standards and encourage the use of open source software.

2010-03-23
French Parliament opted in November 2006 to dump Windows in favor of Ubuntu
Linux, according to ZD Net. The move was part of a comprehensive shake-up
in the software run on Parliament computers, resulting ultimately in
"1,154 French parliamentary workstations running on Linux, with
OpenOffice.org productivity software, the Firefox Web browser and an
open-source e-mail client."

2006-11-23
Deputies elected to the French National Assembly in the next legislative
session will find open-source software on their desktop PCs.
[...]
The software on the deputies' computers will include the Linux operating
system, the OpenOffice productivity suite, the Firefox web browser and
an open-source email application.

2006-10-03
All French government publications should be made available in
OpenDocument Format (ODF), according to a report commissioned by
the French prime minister.

2004-06-18
Civil service minister Renaud Dutreil told Reuters France wanted to use
"open-source" software providers to resupply part of the almost one
million state computers under a government cost-cutting drive designed
to trim a bulging public deficit.
[...]
"The competition is open," he said. "My estimate is that we can cut the
state software bill at least in half."

2003-06-16
The Agency for Information and Communication Technologies in the
Administration (known by its French initials ATICA) has taken on the
task of ensuring that government projects use open standards to reduce
costs and redundancy, and to improve interoperability in government
projects.

2004-02-10
The German Federal Finance Office [...] announced Tuesday that it has
installed two of the largest Linux-based mainframes in Europe after an
18-month testing period.

2003-09-17
Nine German cities in the state of Rheinland Pfalz are in advanced talks
to replace many, if not all, of their Microsoft Corp. software products
with open-source alternatives, particularly the Linux operating system.

2003-07-10
Federal agencies, state and local governments, and other public-sector
administrations in Germany interested in migrating their computer
systems to open source software, particularly the Linux operating
system, can now turn to a set of guidelines for support.

2005-12-06
In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards--not cost--is driving the
German city's shift to Linux.
The technology decision makers have already moved the majority of Mannheim's
120 servers to the open-source operating system. Next, they plan to shift
its 3,500 desktops to the open-source productivity application
OpenOffice.org, running on Linux.
[...]
The switch to Linux was predominantly driven by the department's wish to
use OpenLDAP, an open-source software package, rather than Microsoft's
proprietary Active Directory, he added.

2006-10-26
Full steam ahead for Linux in Munich.
The capital of Bavaria plans to complete its current migration of more
than 80 percent of its desktop systems [to Linux] by 2008 and says that
the first users of open software in the city's administration are
pleased with the initial results.

2004-06-16
And the German city Munich on Wednesday also voted resoundingly in favor
of its plan to switch to Linux from Microsoft Windows following a
closed-door city council meeting.

2003-07-14
The vote wasn't just another win for Linux, as it continues to gobble
chunks of the computer server software market -- a market Microsoft does
not dominate. Munich is about to become the largest tech user to deploy
Linux for everyday use on desktop PCs, the wellspring of Microsoft's
profits.
"Microsoft's philosophy is to change our software every five years,"
[Munich council member Christine] Strobl says. "With open source, it is
possible for us to make our own decision as to when to change our
software."

2006-08-26
After the cola ban, it is now the turn of Microsoft to log out of Kerala.
Children in 12,500 high schools in the state, India's most literate, will
not be taught Windows. Instead, instructors are lining up Linux for them.
[...]
Linux PC dealers are upbeat. Offers of pre-loaded Linux operating system
could fetch good hardware sales margins, says PK Harikrishnan, president,
Kerala Computer Manufacturers and Dealers Association.

2005-11-17
Open source groups are helping the Indian government meet its target of
creating open source CDs in all official Indian languages by February
2006.
The open source applications included on the CDs, such as the Firefox
browser and the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, have already been
translated into five Indian languages -- Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Punjabi
and Urdu. But there are still 17 languages left to be translated in just
three months.

2005-05-25
The Indian government is trying to encourage the use of computers across
the country by distributing free CDs that contain localized versions of
popular open-source applications.

2004-07-07
In another public-sector boost to open-source software, Indian President
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam called for his country's military to use such
nonproprietary technology to ward off cybersecurity threats.

2003-05-29
President A P J Abdul Kalam on Wednesday urged Indian IT professionals
to develop and specialise in open source code software rather than use
proprietary solutions based on systems such as Microsoft Windows.
This is important for security reasons and also because of the costs
involved in purchasing proprietary software. Open source code operating
systems such as Linux do not carry any licensing fees and offers higher
operational security.

2003-12-17
Y-net reported that the Israeli Treasury has decided to walk away from
the Government's contract with Microsoft. Signed two years ago, the
contract expires this month, and the ministry is testing localized
builds of Mandrake Linux.

2003-11-24
The Israeli Ministry of Commerce - essentially the treasury - has
suspended all contracts with Microsoft.
First out of the door is the Israeli employment agency, which will
replace 550 out of 700 users with OpenOffice.
[...]
Microsoft reacted scornfully to the decision, the Hebrew-only
Daily Mail reports, accusing the Israelis of being tight-fisted.

2007-05-09
The Japanese government wants to go open source, as a way to rely less on a
single vendor IT software infrastructure.
[...]
The government has said explicitly it wants to decrease its reliance on
Microsoft as a server operating system platform.

2005-10-06
Japan is drawing up guidelines for its ministries recommending open
source software such as Linux as an "important option" in government
procurement, an official at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and
Communications said.

2004-11-15
Following a year-long evaluation program by Japan's
Information/Technology Promotion Agency (IPA), Sun's Java Desktop was
selected by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
as part of the agency's initiative to promote the use of open-source
desktops in schools throughout the country.

2004-11-11
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has endorsed Sun's Java
Desktop System as an approved product for future bids.
[...]
JDS is a suite of open-source office desktop programs that includes the
Linux operating system and the company's open-source StarOffice suite.

2004-04-04
Japan, China and South Korea signed an agreement Saturday to jointly
develop a new operating system based on Linux as an alternative to
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows.

2004-01-07
A pair of Chinese and Japanese software companies announced a joint
venture Wednesday aimed at developing a Linux-based platform for Asian
markets that they hope will challenge Microsoft Corp.'s dominance.

2003-07-08
Computer giant Fujitsu Ltd said on Wednesday it, IBM Japan Ltd and Oki
Electric Industry Co have won a 188 millioni yen ($1.59 million) contract
to design a Japanese government payroll computer system using Linux.

2003-02-08
Japan plans to spend about 1 billion yen (US$8.3 million) funding Asian
software developers working on the open-source Linux operating system
for consumer electronics goods, an official said Wednesday.

2005-08-18
The Government of Malaysia has decided to encourage the use of Open
Source Software(OSS) in the Malaysian Public Sector.
[...]
In situations where advantages and disadvantages of OSS and proprietary
software are equal, preference shall be given to OSS.

2004-07-16
All Government technology procurement will now have a preference for
open source software (OSS), under the Malaysian Public Sector Open
Source Software Masterplan made available to the public this morning.

2003-08-28
"Open-source software gives the chance for Malaysia and other developing
nations to boost their economies. Therefore, it is only natural that
the government should now be examining the strategic role that we can
play to encourage the adoption of open source by the entire Malaysian
infocommunications industry," Amar Leo Moggie, minister of Energy,
Communications and Multimedia, said in a report by official news agency
Bernama.

2010-01-25
A New Zealand high school running entirely on open source software has
slashed its server requirements by a factor of almost 50, despite a
government deal mandating the use of Microsoft software in all schools.

2005-10-25
A deal has been struck to allow agencies throughout government access to
open-source software and support from Novell at preferential rates.

2004-06-16
Bergen, Norway, has opted to replace Windows and Unix machines with
Linux on servers for its schools and city databases and could later put
the open-source operating system on desktop machines.
The city chose Linux because it costs less, improves reliability and
doesn't lock the government into purchasing one company's products, city
Chief Technology Officer Ole-Bjorn Tuftedal said in an interview.

2004-06-16
The Norwegian city Bergen on Tuesday said it plans to move 100 schools
and 32,000 users away from its proprietary Unix and Microsoft Windows
applications platform to Linux by the end of this year.

2002-08-29
The Government of Pakistan is committing itself to the reduction of
Piracy and the protection of Intellectual Property. In this one element
is the development of open source technologies and LINUX is going to be
the corner stone of this initiative.

2003-01-30
Bayanihan Linux is an Open Source-based desktop solution developed to
provide state universities, local government units, and small to medium
scale business enterprises an alternative to commercially developed
desktop software.

2008-10-23
After running some successful pilots, the Russian government has decided to
make open source the standard for all schools. If a school doesn't want to
use the free software supplied by the government, it has to buy commercial
licenses using its own funds.

2003-10-09
IBM and the Russian Ministry of Communications and Computerization have
agreed to put together a Linux Competency Center in Moscow to help push
greater use of the open-source operating system in Russia.

2003-05-14
In Asia-Pacific, governments in China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and
Australia are encouraging government departments and businesses to
replace Microsoft products with a combination of Linux, other
open-source products, and software from local vendors.

2003-12-01
South Africa is working toward transforming itself into a software
exporter by developing an open source software (OSS) industry.

2003-07-04
SA is now joining a growing list of countries whose governments formally
recognise the value of OSS. Last month Cabinet approved the OSS strategy
compiled by the Government IT Officers Council joining a diverse range
of countries, including Germany, Mexico, China and others in explicit
recognition and utilisation of OSS.

2010-03-23
Linux has spread rapidly throughout Spain since 2002, when the government of
Extremadura actually created its own customized Linux distribution.
[...]
By handing out the software for free and continuing to publicize its
availability, Linux spread from Extremadura throughout the rest of Spain
and remains widely used today.

2006-08-01
The Spanish region of Extremadura has gone open source, deciding to move
its entire administratrion to Linux and open source software within a
year.
The region's government has promoted open source for nearly 10 years but
will now make it a requirement that its officals use the ODF and PDF
formats for all documents.
[...]
"The government has estimated that the total cost for the first year of
this project was about 190,000 euros, and believes it saved 18 million
euros overall compared with a Microsoft-based system."

2005-03-09
IBM has begun a project to modernize health-care services in the Spanish
region of Extremadura, in what marks the country's largest installation
of Linux-based computers to date,

2002-11-03
In April, the government launched an unorthodox campaign to convert all
the area's computer systems, in government offices, businesses and
homes, from the Windows operating system to Linux, a free alternative.

2004-07-26
The city of Barcelona -- Spain's second largest city -- recently
announced it will be phasing out its current Windows NT infrastructure
in favor of open source software, according to
IBLNEWS
and other prominent Spanish-language news outlets.

2005-08-04
This year Sri Lanka will declare 5th-11th of September the "Free and
Open Source Software Week 2005". The driving purpose behind the FOSS
week would be to bring recognition to Sri Lanka by hosting international
FOSS conferences, promote the use of FOSS solutions in Sri Lanka for the
benefit of Business, Government and Academia, to bring awareness to Sri
Lanka's FOSS capability and accomplishments and to help brand Sri Lanka
as a hub for FOSS in Asia.

2003-03-03
Statskontoret, the Swedish Agency for Public Management, has performed a
feasibility study on free and open source software and has given a
thumbs up to the use of free and open source software.

2003-03-03
No one should be forced to use a vendor-specific product in order to
communicate with the public sector. In order to achieve this ambition,
it is imperative to use open standards and formats, both in a
development stage and when procuring one's own systems. That is why
there is also a need for a procurement policy concerning, and in certain
case, placing demands on open source software and open standards.

2002-06-24
The government is planning to implement an open source code project
between next year and 2005 by encouraging R&D in office software
systems and opening the source code to government agencies and private
establishments, an official of the National Center for High Performance
Computing said yesterday.

2002-06-04
According to Vice Education Minister Wu Tieh-hsiung, the government is
also planning to set up six educational centers around Taiwan to train
open-source developers. Three years after the introduction of the
open-source project, the centers will be training 120,000 basic users
and 9,600 advanced users, he predicted.

2004-01-15
Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday will announce that it earned a
record-breaking $2.5 billion Linux-based revenue in fiscal 2003, with
its Linux services and solutions business posting a 40 percent rise over
fiscal 2002.

2003-05-23
Hewlett-Packard has begun selling inexpensive, Linux-based notebooks in
Thailand, in a move that underscores the open source platform's
growing popularity in emerging markets.
The notebooks are being sold as part of a push by Thailand's
Information, Communications, and Technology (ICT) ministry to offer the
public affordable PCs.
The PCs come with a preloaded Linux operating system and went on sale
last week for $450, a representative for HP in Singapore confirmed
Friday.

2005-06-27
Recently, the Ukrainian Parliament registered a "project of law" (the
equivalent of a bill in U.S. terms) that may radically alter the manner
in which the Ukrainian government procures software. If adopted, it will
require government agencies, along with all state-owned or
state-controlled companies, to give preference to open source software.

2009-02-25
The UK government has said it will accelerate the use of open source
software in public services.

2005-05-09
The open-source community is expected receive a major boost this week
from the U.K. tech agency, which has investigated the potential benefits
of using free, nonproprietary software in education.

2004-10-28
UK Government will only use products for interoperability that support open
standards and specifications in all future IT developments.

2004-09-01
Sun Microsystems has landed a deal that will see its Java Desktop System
(JDS) software deployed on 5,000 desktop PCs across the UK's National
Health Service.
[...]
Duncan McNeil, chief technology officer for the National Programme, said
in a statement that "the National Programme continues to view the use of
open source software and open systems architecture as a key way of
achieving best value and systems interoperability into the future".

2003-12-08
Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday will announce a strategic five-year
agreement with the United Kingdom's Office of Government Commerce to
establish the Java Enterprise System and the Java Desktop System as the
underlying infrastructure and desktop solutions for the public sector.

2003-12-04
Another U.K. city council has joined the list of organizations opting
for Linux. The Dundee, Scotland, City Council has chosen the operating
system, supplied with IBM Corp.'s eServer zSeries platform, in an
attempt to reduce its running costs.

2003-12-07
The National Health Service, Britain's biggest employer, is considering
ditching Microsoft software after a row over mounting licensing costs.
Richard Granger, NHS IT director, has ordered a trial of a Linux-based
system from Sun Microsystems as part of a £2.3 billion computer
modernisation plan. The plan could see Java Desktop software rolled out
across the NHS's 1 million staff and 800,000 computers to replace
Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office suite of programmes.

2003-10-09
The UK Government is kicking off nine "proof of concept" trials of the
use of open source software in the public sector with the intention of
creating "a level playing field" between open source and proprietary
software.

2004-11-17
Bristol City Council is shifting 5,000 workers off proprietary desktop
software and onto open source to help it save £1.4m over the next five
years. Corel WordPerfect, Microsoft Office and Lotus 1-2-3 will all be
ditched in favour of Sun's StarOffice 7.

2004-08-29
The UN's International Open Source Network (IOSN) helped promote the
first annual Software Freedom Day on 28 August, giving out CDs and
booklets about the technology.
Events took place in countries like India, Bangladesh, Malaysia,
Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
Open source is free and can offer big opportunities for developing
countries.

2005-10-14
The National Center for Open Source Policy and Research (NCOSPR) was
launched today at the first Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON)
in Portland, a meeting of more than 200 representatives of government
entities and software developers hosted by at Oregon State University's
Open Source Lab (OSL).

2004-02-17
In its mandated search for best value and innovative solutions, the
federal government is now looking to open source software, because, as
one government official recently said, "the open source movement offers
interoperable, reusable, commodity software as viable alternatives to
proprietary software."

2010-03-23
According to Linux.com, the United States Department of Defense is the
"single biggest install base for Red Hat Linux" in the world. Nor was it
an unconscious choice, as Brigadier General Nick Justice, the Deputy
Program Officer for the Army's Program Executive Office proclaims "open
source software is part of the integrated network fabric which connects
and enables our command and control system to work effectively, as
people's lives depend on it."

2008-12-19
The CTO of a powerful agency within the U.S. Department of Defense boldly
declares open source's superiority as a development model.

2006-07-11
A report from the Department of Defense's Advanced Systems and Concepts
Office, [...] recommends that the DoD move to a roadmap to adopt open
source and open standards, maintaining that such a move is not only in
the US national interest, but in the interests of US national security.

2004-02-19
Linux Networx is building a new, high-performance 2,132-CPU Linux
cluster supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Defense as part of an
IT modernization program being undertaken by the agency.

2003-06-09
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has issued a policy that officially
authorizes the use of open-source software at the department, a move
open-source pundits say opens the door to more government use of
open-source software.
[...]
Lack of a policy has not held back adoption of open-source software at
the DOD, according to a Mitre Corp. study released early this year. In
fact, the DOD to a large degree depends on free and open-source software
for infrastructure support, software development, security and research,
Mitre found.

2010-03-23
U.S. Federal Courts rely on Linux for all manner of administrative tasks,
including "case management, case tracking, finance and accounting, probation
and pretrial services." Linux has been used by the courts since November of
2003, when PEC Solutions assisted in orchestrating a "migration of the
Federal Judiciary to a Linux-based system."

2004-11-22
Like dozens of other federal, state and local entities, the U.S. Marshal
Service is adopting open-source software for some information technology
projects, a move that's making Red Hat a potent symbol within the
service's IT department.

2003-11-10
The AFCCC today selected a switching system from Topspin Communications
Inc., of Mountain View, Calif., to help the center reduce hardware costs
and replace its existing server architecture with a cluster of commodity
servers running the RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 operating
system, according to agency officials.

2003-11-00
After the last version of Land Warrior failed reliability tests earlier
this year, the Army switched gears and decided to make the system less
complex and modify the hardware to make it compatible with the new
Stryker infantry vehicle.
[...]
The LW SI will have a single processor. The previous LW had a dual
processor, which frequently malfunctioned. Other changes include a more
simplified data bus and a Linux-based operating system, as opposed to
Windows. "Evidence shows that Linux is more stable. We are moving in
general to where the Army is going, to Linux-based OS," said [Army
Lt. Col. Dave] Gallop.

2010-03-23
Few government users of Linux appear to be happier with their choice to
switch than the United States Federal Aviation Administration. According
to Wikipedia, the FAA announced in 2006 that it "had completed a migration
to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in one third of the scheduled time and saved
15 million dollars" in the process of doing so.

2007-03-06
The top technology official at the Federal Aviation Administration revealed
that he is considering a permanent ban on the Microsoft software in favor
of a combination of Google's new online business applications running on
Linux-based hardware.

2007-03-28
The Library of Congress, where thousands of rare public domain documents
relating to America's history are stored and slowly decaying, is about
to begin an ambitious project to digitize these fragile documents using
Linux-based systems and publish the results online in multiple formats.

2006-09-14
Two Linux-based lunar rovers are on maneuvers -- and Internet webcams --
this week in the Arizona desert near Meteor Crater. The maneuvers are
related to a NASA project tasked with developing extra-vehicular
activity (EVA) hardware and procedures for planetary surface exploration.

2005-01-24
Red Hat's products can be found on several high-profile contract vehicles,
including the National Institutes of Health's Electronic Commodities Store
III and NASA's Scientific & Engineering Workstation Procurement III,
but the company makes most of its [government] in-roads through hardware
partners.

2003-11-18
NASA plans to study the ocean's future with the help of the world's
first supercomputer of its kind to run on the Linux operating system.

2003-04-21
We present arguments in favor of developing an Open Source option for
NASA software; in particular we discuss how Open Source is compatible
with NASA's mission.

2003-12-03
Walt Scacchi of the University of California, Irvine, and his colleagues
are conducting formal studies of the informal world of open-source
software development, in which a distributed community of developers
produces software source code that is freely available to share, study,
modify and redistribute. They're finding that, in many ways, open-source
development can be faster, better and cheaper than the "textbook"
software engineering often used in corporate settings.
[...]
The studies are supported by several Information Technology Research
awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the independent
federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across
all fields of science and engineering.

2003-12-09
About half of the 137 sites in the National Weather Service's
severe-storm prediction system now have new workstations that run Linux.
The workstation replacement is part of a major upgrade to the weather
service's ability to provide warnings of sudden storms and flash floods.

2006-08-16
More than 20,000 Indiana students are now Linux-enabled under a state
grant program to roll out low-cost, easy-to-manage workstations, which
are running various flavors of the open-source operating system.
"We have a million kids in the state of Indiana," [Mike Huffman,
special assistant for technology at the Indiana Department of Education]
continued. "If we were to pay $100 for software on each machine, each year,
that's $100 million for software. That's well beyond our ability. That's
why open source is so attractive. We can cut those costs down to $5
[on each computer] per year."

2005-08-05
Schools in Indiana have started a Linux pilot project that could lead to
every secondary-school student in the state using the open-source
operating system, according to software company Linspire.

2003-05-05
One of the latest government installations based on open source tools is being developed in Louisiana, on behalf of the state's court system. In
Louisiana's Nineteenth Judicial District Court, developers are building a new database application over Linux that offers police, judges and the public
real-time access to judicial records.

2005-09-05
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has cited legal concerns over
Microsoft's software as a factor behind its decision to only use
document formats based on open standards.

2003-10-30
Massachusetts has adopted a new policy that favors open-source software
and adherence to open standards in government computing systems, a state
official said.

2003-10-27
The use of open standards, such as hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP),
extensible markup language (XML) and secure sockets language (SSL),
enables governments to more easily share data across different computing
systems. Open-source software products, such as Linux and Apache Web
server, are available for free and are one possible option for open
standards.

2003-10-20
In a memo sent last month, Massachusetts Administration and Finance
Secretary Eric Kriss instructed the state's chief technology officer to
adopt a policy of "open standards, open source" for all future spending
on information technology.

2003-10-23
Information systems directors, like Cliff Gronauer of the Missouri State
Highway Patrol, have tuned and tweaked NT servers during recent years to
keep systems afloat. Gronauer has decided to avoid the "expense and
pain" of upgrading to Windows Server 2003 and opt for Linux when support
from Microsoft concludes at the end of 2004, he said Wednesday at the
Enterprise Linux Forum conference.

2003-07-24
O'Barr's confidence in Linux' security has been borne out by time. Other
than two unplanned interruptions in service due to a hard
drive/controller problem, the system has experienced no downtime in the
two years it has been operating.

2005-10-25
Governor Ted Kulongoski today announced the contribution of $350,000 by
search technology leader Google Inc. to a joint open source technology
initiative of Oregon State University and Portland State University.
With the grant, the universities will collaborate to encourage open
source software and hardware development, develop academic curricula and
provide computing infrastructure to open source projects worldwide.

2005-01-05
Salem Hospital of Oregon switches from barebones OS projects to
commercialized Linux for its security.

2003-05-05
Rhode Island, for example, recently built out a portal serving up state
rules and regulations on open source technology, using Linux, Apache,
MySQL and PHP/Perl/Python. The state's IT department spent $40K to build
the portal, working two days a week for four months to get the job done.

2003-04-07
Sharing can be especially helpful if your software needs are different
from those of most organizations, notes Jim Willis, director of
eGovernment at the Rhode Island Department of State.

2002-10-30
Agencies should consider Open Source solutions in information technology
procurements, and the criteria for selecting a specific solution should
be based on best value. Agencies should use products that support open
standards and specifications in all applications. Agencies should
consider obtaining full rights to the software code it procures wherever
this achieves best value.

2003-12-17
The City of Austin recently completed a group of pilot studies on the
use of open source software in its day-to-day business. According to a
message posted this morning on the Austin LUG mailing list by Scott
Brown, the results are in, and as a result, as many as 80% of the city's
desktops may be migrating from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org.

2003-07-02
It was during the one-on-one interviews that [city CIO Pete Collins]
heard a number of people suggest that he take a look at Linux. They
described its benefits and how it could save the city dollars. He
listened, but when they asked that he look at it with an open mind, he
told them "Save your breath. I'm already there."

2003-07-18
In Bloomington, the city's emergency dispatch system, running on Linux,
dispatches 7,000 ambulance calls a year, as well as police and fire
crews, for both the city and surrounding Monroe County.

2005-01-15
Using HP servers running the Red Hat Linux operating system, Chicago's
new system will issue more than one million vehicle stickers annually,
replacing an aging mainframe application.
[...]
Chicago CIO Chris O'Brien said the city is exploring open-source
solutions to squeeze cost from its IT infrastructure.

2003-07-18
Garden Grove, California, which uses Linux throughout its IT
infrastructure, is saving money in many ways with open source, says
Charles Kalil, the city's information systems manager.
For example, the city used to pay $7,000 a year to a records management
company to pick up its backup tapes and store them off-site, Kalil
says. It now backs up all its systems to one centralized Linux backup
server, which then copies the data over a wireless connection to another
server offsite.

2003-07-18
From Florida to Washington State, Linux appears to be infiltrating the
IT departments of local governments across the country in much the same
way it sprouted up in corporate IT shops: from the bottom up.
And in a few places, like sunny Largo Florida -- population 70,000 --
Linux use is no longer limited to a few non-critical applications, but
is now supporting large chunks of governmental infrastructure.
Thanks largely to open source software and the low-maintenance thin
clients, the city's IT budget -- about 1.5% of the city's overall
expenditures -- runs about half what similar-sized cities spend, says
Harold Schomaker, Largo's CIO.

2005-02-07
City officials in Los Angeles are considering switching to an
open-source platform for their computer systems to potentially save
millions of dollars that could be redirected to other services.

2003-10-30
Quynh and other government tech officials want Vietnam to be on the
cutting edge of an international movement to embrace open-source
software.
[...]
They are promoting a plan that would require all state-owned companies
and government ministries to use open source by 2005. And they would
require all computers assembled in Vietnam to be sold with open-source
products installed on them. The prime minister is expected to take up
their proposal this fall.
[...]
The United Nations Development Program, which sees open-source software
as a way to strengthen Vietnam's technology sector, has been encouraging
the government to pursue it.

2004-11-03
Adobe Systems, maker of major desktop software products such as
Photoshop and Acrobat Reader, has begun a quiet effort to become more
involved with desktop Linux.
[...]
The software maker is now taking a more active role by joining a
prominent Linux consortium, working to improve Linux and planning to
lead its own open-source development projects.

2004-02-03
Software development company Akiva has been around since 1999, creating
proprietary collaboration software for companies that rely on instant
messaging, video conferencing, and email to create an idea-sharing
atmosphere for employees. But after prompting from some of its largest
customers, such as Cisco, Qualcomm, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Akiva
began to discover the value of open source.

2004-02-03
Amazon.com Inc. is among the largest, most visible proponents of the
Linux operating system. When questions are raised about the capabilities
of Linux to scale and be sufficiently secure to operate enterprise
systems, Amazon is often cited as an example to answer those questions.

2004-01-21
Soon, Amazon will be able to add another title to its collection:
pure-Linux enterprise. [Vice President of Infrastructure Tom] Killalea
announced in his keynote presentation at LinuxWorld here on Wednesday
that Amazon's last holdout application -- the company's 14-terabyte-plus
data warehouse -- will be moved over to Linux servers running Oracle's
Real Application Clusters (RAC) software by the end of the second
quarter of this year.

2003-10-24
Amazon.com runs its shopping carts off Oracle on Linux. You want to talk
mission-critical? What could be more business mission-critical? If
Amazon's shopping carts stop working, not only are thousands of
customers inconvenienced but the entire world knows that the biggest
Internet retailer of all has had a major foul-up.

2003-03-03
American Express migrated from AIX to Linux last week, mirroring a
similar move by another financial giant, Schwab.com earlier in the year.
IBM has a significant presence with both organisations, and it has
probably had a role in encouraging both organisations transititions to
Linux.

2003-11-04
[Illuminata President Jonathan] Eunice noted that all of the major OEMs
support Linux, as do the leading system management software, middleware,
and applications. Eunice added that like Unix in its early days, Linux
has found a particularly loyal following on Wall Street. It currently
has a strong presence in Merill Lynch, Ameritrade, Reuters, and Credit
Suisse/First Boston.

2003-10-20
Sometimes companies aren't actively seeking Linux for the solution to
their problems; sometimes Linux just happens to be the best solution for
their needs. One NY-based sporting goods chain found itself in this
position recently, and they are so far pretty impressed with the
benefits of the unsought platform.

2005-06-03
The BBC News website serves 3 million users and 24 million page
impressions every day.
[...]
The servers themselves are running Apache web server software on either
the Linux or Solaris operating system.

2003-11-18
Aerodynamics are as important to modern Formula 1 race cars as they are
to jet fighters. That's why the BMW Williams F1 team turn to a Linux
cluster when they need to get a bit more out of their 3-litre,
1,000-horsepower, 1,320-lb. FW25 car.

2005-05-16
We believe the open source model is the most effective form of
development for certain types of software. By pooling expertise with the
open source development community, we expect to improve the quality,
performance and feature set of our software.

1999-06-30
Linux' very selling point -- its crash-proof nature -- is convincing
many chief information officers that they don't need to pony up for
support. For instance, Canadian National Railways uses Red Hat on
roughly 100 servers, but without a support contract. "It has been a very
stable installation, so we haven't found a need to so far," notes Carlos
V. da Roza, the company's manager of data networks.

2003-05-06
Canada's largest trade union has relaunched its web site using open
source software, ending an unhappy relationship with Microsoft IIS and
Oracle. The third iteration of the Canadian Union of Public Employees'
web site runs the familiar Apache, MySQL and PHP combination to serve up
more than 10,000 pages, as well as events, links, web-based email, chat,
local web site hosting, online ordering and other applications that will
be of direct benefit to its half million members, as well as locals,
committees, and other organizations.

2004-02-13
The doctors at Capital Cardiology Associates, with seven offices in New
York and Massachusetts, pride themselves on latching on to the latest
medical gizmos. But now they're pioneering in a different tech realm:
computers. Employees at the 160-person company have traded in PCs
running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows for machines using the up-and-coming
Linux operating system.

2003-03-15
David Chugg had a dream. He wanted to remove the Internet Explorer icon
from the Windows desktop.
Chugg's not a Justice Department lawyer, nor does he have a particular
beef with Microsoft. It's just that he didn't want reservations agents
at the 6,600 hotels that are franchises of his company, New York
City-based Cendant, to be surfing the Internet when they should be
taking care of guests.
But, of course, everyone knows Windows won't work without Explorer.
That's why Chugg likes Linux. "It's a loosely coupled system, so you can
rip out the stuff you don't want without harming the rest of it."

2008-09-24
Big business runs on Linux and nowhere is that more apparent on the world¿s
major stock markets. So, it should come as no surprise that the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange Group, the world¿s largest and most diverse derivatives
exchange, has joined the Linux Foundation.

2005-02-17
Manning, an IT manager at Cisco Systems who supports the vendor's
internal network, is behind a Linux push inside the company. The firm
has already converted more than 2,000 of its engineers to Linux
desktops, with plans to move many laptop users to the platform over the
next few years.
[...]
"We're not going to get everyone at Cisco onto Linux," Manning says. " I
would be happy if we could get 70 percent of the company."

2004-05-05
The company will announce at its CA World user conference later this
month a financial and development commitment to open source, said Mark
Barrenechea, senior vice president of product development.

2003-07-15
Computer Associates International Inc., which has pegged Tuesday as
Linux Solution Day at its CA World conference here, is working on a
range of new Linux deals, initiatives and products, including an
upcoming formal partnership with Linux solution provider Ximian Inc.

2003-07-01
Linux offers a new approach to address technology issues in business and
it is changing the entire software industry. At Computer Associates
International, Inc. (CA), we are committed to maximizing Linux benefits
and continually innovating new solutions that smoothly integrate,
protect and manage our customers existing environments.

2003-06-24
On June 14, at the world-leading Paris Air Show, multinational aviation
software systems vendor Copernio debuted its first major Linux
product. And Copernio CEO Peter Berghammer says, "I think two years from
now, we might just be doing Linux releases, not Windows."

2003-11-04
[Illuminata President Jonathan] Eunice noted that all of the major OEMs
support Linux, as do the leading system management software, middleware,
and applications. Eunice added that like Unix in its early days, Linux
has found a particularly loyal following on Wall Street. It currently
has a strong presence in Merill Lynch, Ameritrade, Reuters, and Credit
Suisse/First Boston.

2002-01-30
With its last hit, "Shrek," DreamWorks used Linux servers to help
"render" each frame, the brute-force job of creating detailed images
from skeletal outlines, said Ed Leonard, DreamWorks' chief technology
officer.

2003-03-15
"My operations group is really very positive about using [open source],"
says Sue Unger, senior vice president and CIO of Stuttgart,
Germany-based DaimlerChrysler AG. "It requires less time to manage than
[proprietary software]. Answers become apparent a lot easier, and they
don't seem to need as many management tools as they've needed with other
environments."

2005-08-19
"I could see that the shift to Linux was going to happen anyway, and
that by adopting it I could increase the level of IT resources available
to the company." [De Bortoli CIO Bill] Robertson says. "I knew that the
sooner we began to work strategically the better we would be in the long
run."

2005-10-04
Dell began offering a new desktop PC on Tuesday with no operating system
installed. The machine is designed for people who want to run
open-source software such as Linux instead of Windows.

2003-01-23
Dell Computer has switched 14 of its internal servers from Sun
Microsystems machines to its own systems running Linux and a new version
of Oracle's database software, Chief Information Officer Randy Mott said
Thursday.

2003-10-06
When Jeff Whitmore, IT manager at Ernie Ball Guitar Strings, got the
order to change over the company's systems from Windows to Linux, he was
ecstatic. Not only would Linux be easier to run, he was about save
$80,000 just on new license fees.
[...]
In addition, viruses, currently the bane of Internet-connected
enterprises worldwide, are no longer a problem for Whitmore. This saves
time and, therefore, money.

2003-08-20
Ball told his IT department he wanted Microsoft products out of his business
within six months. "I said, 'I don't care if we have to buy 10,000 abacuses,'"
recalled Ball, who recently addressed the LinuxWorld trade show. "We won't do
business with someone who treats us poorly."

2005-03-28
EXP Pharmaceutical Services Corp. of Fremont, Calif., is finding freedom
from huge licensing fees and increasing its ROI thanks to a recent
migration from Windows and a proprietary software infrastructure to
Linux and open source solutions.

2002-11-18
FedEx Freight recently put a new face on its Web operations, and so far
the company likes what it sees.
The large-volume trucking division of FedEx recently installed 15 Red
Hat Linux 7.2 and 7.3 servers running Apache Web server to act as a front
end to its customer service application, used by businesses that hire
Freight to deliver multitruckload shipments of goods across the country.

2005-02-14
Fujitsu this week will unveil the Primergy BX620 S2 blade server, a
four-way system powered by Intel Corp.'s Xeon processors that can run
Linux from both Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc.'s SuSE Linux unit.

2008-01-01
"[Google is] an example of a company that literally couldn't have
existed in the same form pre-Linux or pre-open source," says Jim
Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation -- the organization
that pays Linus Torvalds to work on the Linux kernel. "If they had
to rely on Microsoft or Sun, not only would it have been too expensive,
they could not have done the modifications necessary to create their
services."

2007-11-06
The reason this announcement heralds such a seismic shift in the way
mobile devices are developing is that Google is embracing the Open Source
movement and aligning itself with the Open model of technology development.

2002-10-06
The open source Linux operating system that powers Google was the focus
of the recent LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. Many in
attendance were fans of both Linux and Google and inquisitive about
everything from the "flavor" of Linux Google uses to issues Google might
have encountered running Linux on more than 10,000 web servers.

2006-03-06
Hewlett-Packard is closing custom deals for thousands of desktop PCs running
Linux, which has the company assessing the possibility of offering
factory-loaded Linux systems, an HP executive said.

2004-03-24
Hewlett-Packard Co. is putting its weight behind personal computers that
run the Linux operating system, the No. 1 personal computer and computer
printer maker said on Wednesday.
[...]
"Does Microsoft like the fact that we do Linux stuff? Absolutely
not. But they understand that we deliver Linux," said Martin Fink, vice
president of Linux for Hewlett-Packard.

2003-11-04
HP has put its money where its mouth is with regard to Linux and now
boasts about 3,500 Linux-based systems in-house involved in a range of
activities, from DNS servers to clustering to electronic design, [Linux
Strategist Mike] Balma said.

2003-03-26
Hitachi participates in Open Source Projects actively, and contributes
to evolution of Open Source Software. The purpose of this site is to
transmit the work for improvement of Open Source and information of Open
Source Projects.

2002-07-21
The technical effects studio has switched from using RISC-Unix
workstations from SGI to using Intel-based Dell systems running Linux
for the bulk of its animation and special effects work, said Cliff
Plumer, ILM's chief technology officer.
ILM began experimenting with Intel-based workstations when working on
"Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace," and used them extensively in
"Episode II: Attack of the Clones." The conversion process took about
nine months, Plumer said. The company is currently using these machines
on "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Terminator 3: Rise of
the Machines."

2007-04-16
Intel is developing its own take on the mini-tablet, with a new ultra-mobile
PC platform to be announced at this week's Intel Developer Forum in Beijing.
The big surprise? Its based on Linux.

2005-05-24
Interact-TV, a digital media management company based in Westminster,
Colo., uses a custom Linux operating system built on Fedora Core as the
base for its digital television servers. As a result of his experiences
with Linux and other open source software on the production floor, CEO
Ken Fuhrman has fired his Web host, fired up some Red Hat servers, and
created a custom Web-based engineering environment along with StarOffice
and Linux for administrative desktops.

2003-10-17
Deborah Magid, who works in the software division of IBM and liases with
venture capitalists, said: "I've watched our use of open source grow and
I agree it's totally unstoppable. A lot of people wonder why we feel
that way about open source, but in 1995 we shed our proprietary
mindset. We supported Java because it was a portable platform, and Linux
was attractive to us for the same reason". And, she said, the use of
Linux is growing.

2002-10-24
Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's upcoming family of
"Blue Gene" supercomputers -- a major endorsement for the operating
system and the open-source computing model it represents.
Blue Gene/L, the first member of the family, will contain 65,000
processors and 16 trillion bytes of memory. Due in 2004 or 2005, the
system will be able to perform 200 trillion calculations per second.

2002-08-05
"This is the first [semiconductor] fab whose IT infrastructure is all
Linux-based, controlled by some 1,700 1-GHz microprocessors able to
access some 600 terabytes of data," said Perry Hartswick, project
manager for factory integration solutions. "Together with Cisco, we
developed this IT manufacturing environment with off-the-shelf parts."

2003-03-15
Until recently, Tom Jeffery didn't give a damn about open-source
software. What concerned him was finding 10,000 new cash registers
(essentially PCs with cash drawers) for 1,300 KB Toys stores and a new
software system to run them because his old vendor was going to stop
supporting the system he had. But then a funny thing happened. "We sent
out final [RFPs] to six vendors and narrowed it down to three," he
recalls. "The only thing they had in common was they were all written in
Java. And ran on Linux."

2002-12-05
Mark's Work Wearhouse Ltd. new point-of-sale solution is saving it more
than 30 per cent with each store opening while reducing maintenance
costs by 50 per cent, according to Robin Lynas, CIO, Mark's Work
Wearhouse.
Retek Inc.'s Java-based solution deployed on Red Hat Linux 7.3 has been
rolled out in 65 stores and hundreds more are soon to follow.

2003-10-21
Consumer electronics giant Panasonic will use Linux instead of
Microsoft's Windows Media Centre operating system as a base for
multimedia entertainment systems that combine TV, video, and stereo with
computers and internet access.

2002-12-18
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) and Sony Corporation
today announced their agreement to work in partnership on the
development of an enhanced Linux platform for digital home electronic
devices.

2003-06-07
During a presentation Friday at the Enterprise Linux Forum here, Mark
Snodgrass, vice president of Merrill Lynch's in-house technology
provider, the Global Technology and Services group, said that the company
has found that rebuilding its information infrastructure using Linux can
reduce administration costs dramatically.

2003-03-03
"I always want to have the right competitive dynamics. That's why we
focus on Linux. Riding that wave will give us choices going forward,"
says John A. McKinley Jr., executive vice-president for global
technology and services at Merrill Lynch and Company.

2006-08-17
"We've got to the point where 50 (percent) to 60 percent of our phonexi
platforms will be Linux-based in the next couple years," Greg Besio,
vice president of mobile device software, said in an interview at the
LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here.

2003-10-30
Motorola plans to eventually use Linux in most of its handsets,
including the less-expensive models. The Linux-powered handset will be
closely watched by those who foresee a bright future for the open-source
operating system on portable devices.

2003-02-13
Motorola announced today the Motorola A760, the world's first handset
combining a Linux Operating System and Java Technology, with full
multimedia PDA functionality.

2004-03-30
It's called the "LookClub," and it's a not a PC, but it's not a PDA
either. I guess that makes it close to a Sony AirBoard? Although not
really. It does, however, use Linux, and is suprisingly affordable.

2003-12-10
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium of
customers and leading technology companies dedicated to accelerating the
adoption of Linux, today announced that Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:
NTAP), a leading provider of enterprise network storage solutions, has
joined OSDL and will bolster the Lab's storage initiatives by
participating in the OSDL Data Center Linux (DCL) Working Group.

2003-03-15
"The way [open source] has been accepted and embraced by the IBMs and
Suns has put it on our radar screen," says Judith Campbell, senior vice
president and CIO of New York Life Insurance. "I like what I'm seeing
because however this shakes out, it represents a flight to quality in
software."

2004-07-13
NZX - the New Zealand stock exchange - has become the first major New
Zealand company to adopt the Oracle 10g database running on Red Hat
Linux.
Apart from being able to consolidate 21 databases into one, the new NZX
system runs faster, more reliably and at less cost, says the company's
tech team.

2005-09-19
Nokia and the Eclipse Foundation today announced that Nokia has joined
the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and Board member. Nokia
will support the work of the Eclipse open source community by
contributing software and developers to a proposed new Eclipse project.

2005-06-13
"Open-source software and Linux is an interesting phenomenon--it is not
new for Nokia," said Tero Ojanpera, Nokia's chief strategy officer. "We
are more and more using open source in our developments."

2005-05-25
Nokia Corporation announced today that it allows all its patents to be
used in the further development of the Linux Kernel. Nokia believes that
open source software communities, like open standards, foster innovation
and make an important contribution to the creation and rapid adaptation
of technologies.

2003-11-12
Nokia has been actively recruiting and trying to entice developers with
experience in the open source Symbian operating system, which powers
most of Nokia's high-end phones and phone/computer combination
units. And that's a high number; Nokia moved more than 100 million
phones in 2002.
[...]
"We're all about open standards and as much open source code as
possible," [Nokia spokesman Chuck] Chopp said, "in order to extend the
reach of our applications for deployment across all boundaries. We want
everyone in the chain to prosper [...] and open source, open standards is
the way to go."

2004-02-03
The world's largest telecommunications conglomerate, with 430 companies
and 200,000 employees, has joined the Open Source Development Labs
(OSDL) and will participate in the Lab's Data Center Linux and Carrier
Grade Linux working groups.
[...]
Yuji Inoue, senior vice president of NTT, said, "We are joining OSDL to
contribute in establishing Linux as the computing platform for telecom
carrier IT systems."

2004-11-26
NTT DoCoMo, the most experienced company of all in building ecosystems,
laid out new plans for its next generation handset architecture - plans
that embrace Linux and Symbian, and specifically exclude Microsoft.

2003-12-03
DoCoMo intends Linux as a cost-saving measure for its 2004 cell phone
lineup, spokeswoman Karen Lurker said on Wednesday. The Linux operating
system, which is distributed freely, could help DoCoMo's handset
suppliers-- NEC, Panasonic, Toshiba and Fujitsu--drive down the price of
some of the phones they manufacture, she said.

2003-12-03
NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan's top mobile operator, aims to offer
third-generation (3G) handsets that run on the Linux-based operating
system as early as the second half of 2004, a source close to the firm
said on Tuesday.

2004-05-26
Oracle will finish switching its 9,000-person in-house programming staff
to Linux by the end of 2004, the database powerhouse said Wednesday.
In October, the company finished the Linux transition for the 5,000
programmers of its Oracle Applications software. Now the transformation
has begun for those who work on the database product.

2003-10-22
[Director Jim] Enright said that today, Oracle is "aggressively"
transferring its internal IT to Linux.
Looking ahead, Enright said he sees all of Oracle internal IT working on
the Linux platform. Even now, he noted, all Oracle employees use Linux
at some point in their workday.
[...]
Customers who now go to Oracle for outsourced DBMS solutions are now
automatically placed on Linux platforms unless they express a preference
for another platform. Since Oracle started this policy in May, he said,
all the customers have opted to stick with Linux. Today, more than 60
percent of Oracle's hosted customers are running on Linux.

2003-07-01
Online travel agency Orbitz Inc. is more committed than ever to the
open-source operating system that powers the company's search engine for
low-priced airline tickets.
Because of the sophistication of Orbitz's IT organization, the company
prefers to have the source code of applications readily available, which
is always the case with open source software, in order to fix problems.

2005-09-13
The Panasonic Digital Concepts Center, through its newly established
Technology Collaboration Center, is seeking to invest in four to five
start-ups working on Linux technology for embedded computing systems
such as consumer electronics devices.

2004-05-04
One group that's driving forward with Linux is the PGA Tour, a mid-sized
enterprise that organizes 120 golf tournaments a year. In the first
quarter of 2000, Steve Evans, vice-president of information systems,
replaced a piece of his Windows NT operation with a Linux
system. Pleased with its reliability, Evans now uses Linux as the
backbone of his mail system, and he's phasing it into other aspects of
the IT operation.

2003-08-28
"The consumer-electronics industry has chosen the Linux platform in
large numbers. For us, Linux has several advantages," said Gerard
Kleisterlee, Chief Executive at consumer-electronics maker Philips
Electronics.

2005-10-25
IT managers who want to deploy an open source solution but are worried
about company politics should go ahead and do it without asking,
according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Japan IT manager Mark Uemura.
[...]
"PricewaterhouseCoopers is a Windows shop but we were forced to use open
source," he said. "I inherited a real nightmare with servers going up
and down. There were e-mail outages and on top of that there was a bad
relationship between our users and IT."

2003-03-03
If you bought a soft drink or a bag of popcorn the last time you went to
the movies, chances are the cashier rang up your purchase on a device
running the Linux operating system -- the basic software that controls a
computer. Last September, Regal Cinemas, which owns 520 theaters in 36
states, replaced its old electronic cash registers with inexpensive
computers based on Linux to link its concession stands to its back-end
accounting systems.

2003-12-16
"Low-fare searches are driven by Web customers and don't really not gain
much revenue because the look-ratios are very high. A lot more people
browse than really buy. So we needed to drive down the costs of the
technology as much as possible. With that in mind, when we started
looking at our reservation system in 2000, we knew that we wanted to go
to Linux on commodity servers."

2003-05-23
In the case of content management, a number of open source contenders
are emerging but Bricolage, in particular, stands out in terms of
capability.
Bricolage is an actively developed content management system with a
browser-based interface. It has most of the features you would expect
from a full-featured content management system, including distributed
authoring of content, workflow and support for user roles and
groups.
The product was built to run Salon.com.
Visiting this site gives a useful and interesting demonstration of its
capabilities.

2003-11-11
Sharp has selected MontaVista Software's version of Linux for its HG-01S
home entertainment server, the companies said Monday. The device can be
used to record TV programs, to store digital images from a
camera-equipped mobile phone, to house a Web-based photo album and to
handle other tasks.

2003-08-14
One of the world's largest IT companies is declaring that the Linux
desktop will capture 20% of the market for desktop computers in large
enterprises within 5 years.
Siemens Business Systems, the $6 billion global IT consulting and
outsourcing company, has conducted extensive testing with real-world,
non-technical workers and is declaring that Linux has matured as a
desktop and will quickly vault to the #2 most-installed OS in the world.

2003-03-15
"We just had a security and penetration audit last month, and the only
systems the auditors weren't able to penetrate were the Linux systems,"
says Pete Sattler, SPX's chief e-business officer and CIO.

2005-12-05
When it released the source code to its Solaris operating system, Sun
Microsystems bet that people would pick it up and run. Sun said it
wanted to see a community form around the OpenSolaris code, and take it
beyond what the company had done with it in its more than 25 years of
development of the OS. Today the community Sun was looking for seems to
be coming to life.

2005-08-18
"Sun is now heading in the direction where all its software is going to
be based on open source. It's become more important than ever to have
coordination to promote best practices and ensure consistency in the way
Sun behaves with open-source communities," [Sun Open Source Officer
Simon] Phipps said.

2003-06-06
Super Tramp now runs a 99.5% open-source shop, using OpenOffice.org,
Mozilla Web and e-mail, GIMP, Sendmail and SmoothWall. The company now
has only one PC running Microsoft Windows (because of its user's skill
with Adobe Photoshop). The company soon began to reap the rewards of its
migration, in the form of improved staff morale and smiling faces --
something management couldn't help but notice.

2003-07-14
Database software vendor Sybase Inc. today launched a Linux Competency
Center in New York for customers to learn more about its products, and
it unveiled plans to port all of its software to Linux by next year.

2003-09-18
Australian telco Telstra will be one of the first major customers to roll with
Sun's Mad Hatter Linux desktop, according to a report in The Australian.

2003-09-02
Telstra, Australia's largest technology company, has nailed its colours
firmly to the mast of open source software, creating a potential
nightmare for Microsoft and sending shivers through a range of
traditional platform providers.

2003-09-18
Australian telco Telstra will be one of the first major customers to roll with
Sun's Mad Hatter Linux desktop, according to a report in The Australian.

2003-09-02
Telstra, Australia's largest technology company, has nailed its colours
firmly to the mast of open source software, creating a potential
nightmare for Microsoft and sending shivers through a range of
traditional platform providers.

2004-04-23
Dana Myers is known as the penguin lady at chip giant Texas Instruments.
Since 2002, Myers has overseen development work on compact versions of
the open-source Linux operating system used to run chips and circuit
boards in mobile phones and other electronics products. And during the
past year, Myers has boosted the size of her development team by 75%, to
nearly 100 people. "All over the world, customers are asking us for
Linux", says Myers.

2003-09-03
Two years ago, Linux-based servers running Oracle database software were
placed in hundreds of TSC retail stores for back-end, point-of-sale
applications. The IT staff and users were impressed with the
results. "Once Linux was up, we didn't have to do anything with it,"
said [Database Manager Stevan] Townsend. "It's very stable."

2002-12-01
Union Pacific is building a new generation of intranet and customer
applications based on Web technology. At the heart of the strategy is
open-source Apache Unix Web servers, which let developers add to the
server software as needed or write their own modules for legacy
interfaces and other features, rather than having to wait for a Web
server vendor to distribute a new service pack or release.

2002-08-15
Telecommunications company Verizon Communications saved $6 million in
equipment costs by moving its programmers to Linux computers, the
company said Wednesday.
The company cut costs by replacing programmers' Unix and Windows
workstations with Linux systems that run OpenOffice instead of Microsoft
Office, said George Hughes, a Verizon executive overseeing the work.
The average desktop cost dropped from $20,000 to $3,000 per developer,
he said in a talk at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.

2004-01-26
With the help of Dell(tm) PowerEdge servers running SUSE LINUX,
weather.com was able to improve the reliability and speed of information
to its customers during a severe winter storm on Dec. 5, 2003.

2003-07-28
Weather.com runs Linux to serve many of its Web pages but has not been
influenced by SCO's statements and legal moves and plans to continue
with its Linux strategy and future implementations, said Dan Agronow,
vice president of technology for Weather.com, part of The Weather
Channel Enterprises Inc., of Atlanta.